LITERATURE LETTERS from Gregor Rare Books

New York:: Scribners,, 1981.. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with slight fading to the spine. Hemingway biographer Carlos Baker has gathered nearly 600 letters written by Hemingway to a wide variety of friends, enemies, editors, translators and the prominent writers of his time. These missives are both… Read more about this item

Austin :: University of Texas Press,, 1995.. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight unread copy in a Fine bright dust jacket. Proclaimed "one of the great American writers of short fiction" by the New York Times Book Review, William Goyen (1915-1983) had a quintessentially American literary career, in which national recognition came only after years of… Read more about this item

New York:: Viking,, 1966.. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine copy in a Near Fine dust jacket with light toning to the rear panel. By 1944, Faulkner had published seventeen books including novels, stories and poems but not oneof them was in print and he was considered "finished" as a writer. In early 1944, critic and literary… Read more about this item

Albuquerque:: University of New Mexico,, 1996.. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight unread copy in a Fine bright dust jacket. Mabel Dodge first met Gertrude Stein in Paris in 1911 and quickly became an avid promoter of her new style of writing. A charged and intense friendship developed between them. In 1912, Stein wrote "Portrait of… Read more about this item

New York:: Viking,, 1975.. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine copy in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light edge wear. The more than 600 letters collected in this volume of Steinbeck's correspondence were culled from several thousand with the majority of them directed to his agent, a college roommate, and his long-time editor Pascal Covici.… Read more about this item

Boston:: Little, Brown,, 1953.. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Very Good plus copy with a toning strip to the front and rear flyleaves in a Very Good plus price clipped dust jacket with light edge wear to the extremities. This collection brings together 401 letters by the single most influential American writer on the works of other… Read more about this item

Middlebury:: Eriksson,, 1979.. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy with a previous owner name on the flyleaf in a Near Fine price-clipped dust jacket.. This annotated story of the relationship between Steinbeck and his friend and editor, Pascal Covici is primarily told through their correspondence. Covici was Steinbeck's editor at Viking Press for nearly forty… Read more about this item

London::: Hutchinson,,, 1990... First Printing of the First UK Edition. A Fine tight unread copy in a Fine bright unclipped dust jacket. This is the first published selection from the huge collection of Wodehouse's letters. Donaldson, who also wrote Wodehouse's authorized biography, has compiled a very informative book. Mainly addressed to a small group of close friends and… Read more about this item

New York:: Scribners,, 1981.. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Very Good plus unclipped dust jacket with light edge wear and slight fading to the spine. Hemingway biographer Carlos Baker has gathered nearly 600 letters written by Hemingway to a wide variety of friends, enemies, editors, translators and the prominent writers of his… Read more about this item